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Wow! I've just seen it - if anyone wants a copy please let me know. Bolton Museum is not like that, the boss of the museum was not like that, the accents and dialogue were all wrong but - a powerful drama. I've not used the Egypt curator's real name but she must feel accursed. The Friends of Bolton Museum just paid 40k of the total price for the Princess - the rest came from Lottery Heritage grants (but Notlob recently lost 6m in an Icelandic bank collapse). I probably went to school with Shaun's solicitor. Would you write to the man - in prison - hypothetically? He must have a deep guilt over that particular forgery and want to 'expiate' it - I would think. Try to interest him in prehistoric rock art forms? On the other side of the balance was Fred Dibnah, perhaps. Restoring ancient artefacts expertly and with a generous heart!

"On the other side of the balance was Fred Dibnah, perhaps. Restoring ancient artefacts expertly and with a generous heart!"

Nice. A true heritage hero. Victorian engineering was Britain's greatest achievement. Shame he wasn't spared for another ten years.

Not sure Shaun was the untrained genius he was portrayed. The antiquities establishment had to say that, didn't they, else they'd have been consistently fooled by a crude amateur. It was the old man that was the genius, such a brilliant liar.